volleysparkle | nails

As a base color, I first applied Zoya India. Pretty much any base color would work, but I suggest a dark one for contrast. For the stripes, I used a white striper from Sinful Colors. On each nail, I painted horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines, alternating the placement from nail to nail. As always, I finished the design off with a top coat, this time using Nail Tek Intensive Therapy II.

The Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nail Color in Black Out is a classic black polish with a creme finish. Black Out has a rather opaque formula, but is still on the thinner side. You could probably get away with only one coat, but I used two coats of Black Out in the swatches.

I began with a base color of OPI My Vampire is Buff. To paint the Chinese character, I used the black striper polish from Sinful Colors. You could go with any character you like, but the character for "create" is my favorite. Once the design had completely dried, I went over all the nails with the Nail Tek Intensive Therapy II Top Coat.